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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 9:03:00 PM  AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, but said Thursday night that he will step down if he is indicted.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 9:01:16 PM  AP - Seven more police officers were taken off street duty Thursday as investigators look into the videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects during a traffic stop.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 8:58:04 PM The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was captured early Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 8:40:34 PM A bill that would allow the government to guarantee new mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure passed the House on Thursday, but it faces a veto threat from the White House and an uncertain fate in the Senate.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 8:21:51 PM Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving "our influence around the world."
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 8:06:57 PM  AP - Sen. Barack Obama got a front-runner's welcome back at the Capitol Thursday, pressing congressional "superdelegates" to support him in a visit that had the look and feel of a campaign victory lap.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:51:11 PM  AP - Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:38:43 PM  Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday
did not rule out selecting rival Hillary Clinton as his vice
presidential running mate if he ultimately defeats her in a
race in which he has an almost insurmountable lead.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:32:30 PM  Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday approved legislation to create a $300 billion
mortgage-insurance fund and provide billions more in homeowner
aid to stabilize a housing market shaken by a wave of
foreclosures and a credit crunch.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:30:44 PM  AP - Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:29:50 PM  AP - Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 7:27:39 PM  AP - There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 7:19:15 PM Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war."
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 6:54:01 PM  AP - Niko Bellic is richer than Tony Stark.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 5:41:10 PM  AP - Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 5:32:39 PM  U.S. News & World Report - With rounds to fight running out, the self-described Rocky Balboa of politics will soon be forced to assess the damage sustained by the most expensive primary bout in history. Sen. Hillary Clinton doled out $6.4 million of her own money to her campaign since April, her campaign told reporters this week. That brings her total cash outlay to more than $11 million since January. And she's not ruling out spending more as she plans to compete in the six remaining contests. If she plans to knock out heavyweight fundraising champ, Sen. Barack Obama, she may have no other choice.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 5:23:58 PM The Charles Manson murder spree of 1969 ended in a remote Death Valley, California, cabin called Barker Ranch. It's where Manson and members of his cult "family" hid after the seven murders, dubbed the "Helter Skelter" killings that terrified the country.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 4:10:27 PM  AP - A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 4:03:40 PM Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 4:03:19 PM  Reuters - Oil rallied back from early losses on
Thursday to strike a fresh record above $124 a barrel as strong
diesel demand outweighed signs of rising OPEC supplies.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 3:50:02 PM There's a courthouse adage: A person who represents himself has a fool for a client.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 2:46:08 PM  AP - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 2:05:15 PM  AP - "CSI" co-star Gary Dourdan has been charged with felony possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy stemming from his arrest last month, prosecutors said.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 2:02:12 PM Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 1:29:18 PM  CQPolitics.com - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday rejected a compromise plan to seat Michigan's delegates to the national convention that would give 69 delegates to Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 11:10:30 AM Ted Rall - NEW YORK--I argue with my friends. Some of them thought invading Iraq was a good idea.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 10:31:55 AM World War II was over, but as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, a new evil lurked in the land.
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CNN.com - Most Popular - 5/8/2008 9:23:32 AM Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of TLC's "Shalom in the Home" says we can't just blame kids for acting bratty or spoiled. Kids today, he says, are exhibiting a lot of anger because they feel neglected by parents who may put careers ahead of family.
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 9:10:00 AM  Time.com - Barack Obama has refused to play by the old political rules. He's about to be rewarded for it
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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed - 5/8/2008 2:00:00 AM Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: My husband of a year, "Michael," is everything a partner should be: generous, caring, supportive, intelligent, easygoing and optimistic.
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